allow to install a theme from a directory

[Thrift]

Using the theme preferences, you can drag and drop a theme archive onto the
theme preferences window, and it will confirm the path and install it.

Doing this same operation with a theme archive that has already been extracted
confirms the path and then results in the error message "The file format is
invalid".

This seems extremely silly and a friend that just installed Linux just bumped
into it as he was trying to install a theme. He went through about 6 of them
before he immed me, and then I had to till him exactly what I was doing for him
to figure it out. Seems like a usability problem to me.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326103: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326103

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks for your bug. What version of Ubuntu do you use? What kind of theme do
you install? I've just tried with an icon theme, it opens a dialog saying it has
been installed correctly.

[Thrift (thrift24)]

The version of Ubuntu I was able to do this on was a Warty install updated to
Breezy. The version my friend used was a new install of Breezy.

I've attempted this with an application/control theme from art.gnome.org. My
friend tried this with 6 application/control themes from art.gnome.org as well.

It may not occur with icon themes. When I get back onto my Ubuntu machine I'll
try it out with the window themes and icon themes and update.

[Thrift (thrift24)]

OK I just tried it with a GTK theme, Metacity theme, and an icon theme.

All were unsuccesfull when I first uncompressed them, dragged the directory to
the Theme Preferences window, and confirmed the path. Attempting to install them
this way resulted in the error "The file format is invalid".

When I tried to simply drag the compressed archive to the Theme Preferences
window, and confirmed the path, the themes were successfully installed.

All the themes I tried were from art.gnome.org. If you would like to try these
specific themes, they were: Water Vapor(GTK2), Tactile(MCity), and kearone's
Comicons light(Icons).

[Daniel Holbach (dholbach)]

It was always my understanding, that you had to drag the tarball (.tar.gz) to
the dialog to make it work. Seb: or am I mistaken?

[Thrift (thrift24)]

I don't know if it was always the case, but it seems simple to make it work on
directorys as well as compressed archives. I mean one less step right. And as
you can see there are some use cases where this method of operation confuses the
user.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

I've forwarded your issue upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326103

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

fixed upstream

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

fixed to feisty